TFI Alumni 'Drought' & 'Four' Win at LAFF

Today the Los Angeles Film Festival came to a close with the announcement of its jury awards. Out of the winners include TFI alumni Everardo González's Drought (Latin America Media Arts Fund, 2009), which won Best Documentary and Joshua Sanchez's Four (TAA, 2007), whose cast won Best Performance for a narrative film.

For Drought, the LAFF screening was the film's U.S. Premiere while for Four it was its world premiere. Next, Sanchez's film will be opening NewFest.

In Drought, González looks at the lives of cattle ranchers in northern Mexico that are on the verge of extinction. While in Four, Sanchez adapts Christopher Shinn's play about a father and daughter who cope with loneliness in different ways.

González gives us a glimpse inside how he visually brought the rugged terrain in Drought to the screen.